The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
CURRENT OPINION.


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Variety of Topics.
Colonel Tom OcHILTREE of Texas -
NO man will yield to in my admiration for
the kindness and lovable qualities of General
Lee. But when it comes to question of gen
eralship, that is another matter. We had two
men in the Confederate Army who were far
his superiors. They were Joseph E. Johnston
and Stonewall Jackson. Lee was local COM
mander, as Sherman points out. He was
lighting for Virginia, on the defensive. His
only aggressive battles were failures-Antietam
and Gettysburg. Johnston fought for the
whole Confederacy, as jackson did. The cheek
Of that English general, Wolseley in attempting
to write about war is immense. Why, he him
self never fought anything but naked 'niggers'
and half-starved, half-armed barbarians, and
then they mostly got the best of him."
LAWRENCE BARRETT, the actor ST
think the interstate commerce bill is going to
exercise potent influence upon the theatrical
profession. In the first place it will draw back
to the larger cities, and especially to New
York, many people who will find their best in
terest served in becoming prominent members
Of good stock companies. The first-class COM
binations will continue to travel, but think
they will do so on different basis. Perhaps
the old local stock companies in the smallest
cities may never come into being again; per-
haps it is better that they never should; but
the local manager of the future will have to be
something more than mere janitor, as he is
at present. He will in future have to provide
scenery and perhaps supernumeraries for the
travelling companies.
Ex-Governor THOMAS A. OSBORNE,
of Kansas :-"Aside from their great staples of
wheat, corn, cattle and politicians, the people
Of my State have taken up the production of
the castor bean for the manufacture of castor
oil. They are also sowing fax in considerable
quantities. Two railroads are building extern
sions-the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe
and the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul
with view of increasing their shares of the
immense freightage of products from Kansas.
A third line of railroad has also been projected
and is likely to be built. The growth of the
State is SO great that there will be business for
all of them. many event it will give the peo-
pie of the State cheaper freights through
competition and SO add to the advantages
we already enjoy
Ex-senator S. W. DORSEY There are
evidences clear and distinct throughout New
Mexico and Arizona of numerous volcanic
eruptions in the past. On the plateaus the
signs are not SO distinct as they are in tracing
the formation down the sides of the mountains.
The plateaus have become fertile and the evil
dences of volcanic eruptions have been de-
stroyed, but you can trace the lava as it flowed
down the mountain sides, and at the bottom,
where it cooled and has formed into rock, the
signs are very clear. There are scores of these
extinct craters within a few miles of my ranch,
and they are dotted all over the mountains in
this section"
The Rev. ]. E. Cooley, of St. Louis -
1T ought to be known that man who goes
around advertised as an evangelist and taking